Daily Archives: July 10, 2008

LRC blogger Nick Bradley reports that Bob Barr is polling at 10% in New Hampshire. Apparently, no one told the pollsters, the pollees, or Bradley that Barr likely won’t even be on the ballot in the Granite State, in which the LP will be represented by George Phillies — a fact that was covered by Lew Rockwell himself nearly three weeks ago.… Read more ...

Kevin Barrett, who describes himself as “the peace candidate for Congress” against a pro-war Democratic incumbent in Wisconsin’s District 3, has written a letter to his incumbent-opponent, Representative Ron Kind, demanding that Kind retract what Barrett calls his “false and libelous statement that Iran’s president has called for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map.'”

Below is the letter:

Dear Congressman Kind,

I am writing to ask you to retract a libelous, potentially murderous, and arguably criminal falsehood you uttered on the Ben Merens show on Wisconsin Public Radio Tuesday.

In a press release issued yesterday, the Libertarian Party said Barack Obama had a chance to stand for liberty bud didn’t. “Civil liberties were violated, and only 28 senators cared to see justice served,” said Libertarian Party spokesperson Andrew Davis, “and Barack Obama was not one of them.”

The party is referring, of course, to Obama’s support of FISA and retroactive telecom immunity, which he originally said he would not support.… Read more ...

Drew Pritt, who as a Democrat was the first openly gay man to run for statewide office in Arkansas, says that he doesn’t think he could vote Green if Cynthia McKinney is the party’s nominee for president.

“I have problems with [McKinney’s] candidacy,” Mr. Pritt says. “You see, running for President should mean that you have someone who has earned the right to represent the party, not use the party for political expediency.”

Pritt condemns McKinney for what he perceives as her antisemitism: “Cynthia McKinney has openly attacked members of the Jewish community.… Read more ...